By Ben May

For those who blog in Wordpress, you probably write your post up in something like Microsoft Word. I see it on a day to day basis, people copying out of word, into Wordpress. Although it looks like it worked, Word makes a huge mess of the formatting / coding.

However, tinkering around in the latest version of Wordpress 2.5.1 which has got a tonne of great new features. One of which, is a Paste from Word feature. Basically, you copy your text straight out of word, into this box, and it converts it to neat, clean, tidy code.

To access this feature, you need to switch the second tool bar on when typing a new post or page. To swtich on the “Kitchen Sink” as it’s called, either press Alt + Shift + Z or click on the little icon that looks like this;

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